Hi all,
Can somebody riddle me this?
I have a package A, which depends on package B. 'make install' for A
pulls in B and installs just fine. /var/db/pkg/B/+REQUIRED_BY now
contains a line for A.
Trying to deinstall B doesn't work, of course. Good.
Deinstalling A works fine.
Reinstalling A works fine.
pkg_delete -r B works fine (and naturally removes A)
pkg_delete A works fine, but pkg_delete B afterwards does not. It
complains that B is required by A (even though I uninstalled A), and in
fact, I do still find the entry for A in /var/db/pkg/B/+REQUIRED_BY.
Error message:
pkg_delete: unable to change directory to /var/db/pkg/A
(Of course, A has been removed, so there is no longer any /var/db/pkg/A)
Only manually removing it allows me to deinstall B.
Can anybody think of a reason why the relevant entry in +REQUIRED_BY is
not removed?
Thanks,
-Jan
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